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Overview

Call Number: SC0213

Creator:
Phi Delta Kappa. Delta Chapter (Stanford University).

Title: Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Chapter (Stanford University), records

Dates: 1909-1965

Physical Description:
4.5 Linear feet

Summary: These records include memberships lists, constitution and bylaws, correspondence, minutes, account books, newsletters, publications,
and materials from several biennial meetings of the national council. In addition to correspondence between Stanford chapter
leaders and their membership, there is correspondence with national leaders and with other collegiate chapters. Correspondents
include E. P. Cubberley, John D. Houser, Frank A. Scofield, Erwin E. Lewis, Julian E. Butterworth, Albert M. Davis, Emmett
Ellis, Walter E. Morgan, and John R. Nichols.

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Administrative transfer, 1979.

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

Ownership & Copyright

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.

Phi Delta Kappa, Honorary Fraternity, was organized May 23, 1911 at Stanford University. It is a chapter of Pi Kappa Mu, which
was organizaed May 4, 1909. Faculty members at the time of the founding of the Delta chapter at Stanford were Ellwood P. Cubberley,
Percy E. Davidson, Rufus Clarence Bentley, and Lewis Madison Terman. The nature and purpose of the club as stated in their
constitution reads: Phi Delta Kappa shall be a fraternity founded upon educational principles and supporting the highest educational
ideals. It shall exist for the purpose of mutual help of men of sound moral character and of recognized professional training
and ability interested in the scientific study of education. It shall foster research both in and out of the university and
shall ever uphold the great truth that the noblest and most efficient service to the state is that rendered through the education
of her children.

Description of the Collection

These records, dating from 1909 to 1965, include membership lists, constitution and bylaws, correspondence, minutes, account
books, newsletters, publications, and materials from several biennial meetings of the national council. In addition to correspondence
between Stanford chapter leaders and their membership, there is correspondence with national leaders and with other collegiate
chapters. Correspondents include E. P. Cubberley, John D. Houser, Frank A. Scofield, Erwin E. Lewis, Julian E. Butterworth,
Albert M. Davis, Emmett Ellis, Walter E. Morgan, and John R. Nichols.

The original order of the correspondence in Box 1 has not been substantially altered. It was removed from the letter-boxes
and refoldered; consequently there is some overlapping of dates. The alpha reference is not always to the letter writer, but
may reflect the state, other college chapters, or the national office. The correspondence in Box 3 was resorted and is filed
alphabetically by author, with the exception of several letters pertaining to “Lambda Chapter” at Berkeley, filed under L.